Carla Louise Lyons v. Nancy Berryhill

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
CARLA LOUISE LYONS,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
NANCY BERRYHILL,
Defendant-Appellee.
No. 15-17322
D.C. No. 3:14-cv-08048-JZB
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the District of Arizona
John Z. Boyle, Magistrate Judge, Presiding
Submitted on the Briefs June 12, 2017**
San Francisco, California
Before: SCHROEDER and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges, and PIERSOL,***
District Judge.
FILED
JUN 30 2017
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
** This panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
*** The Honorable Lawrence L. Piersol, United States District Judge for
the District of South Dakota, sitting by designation.

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Carla Lyons (“Lyons”) appeals from the district court’s decision remanding
for further proceedings in Lyons’ action for disability insurance benefits under
Title II of the Social Security Act. We review the district court’s decision to
remand for further proceedings for abuse of discretion, Treichler v. Comm’r of Soc.
Sec. Admin., 775 F.3d 1090, 1098 (9th Cir. 2014), and we affirm.
The Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) denied Lyons disability insurance
benefits upon concluding, at step two of the five-step sequential evaluation
process, that Lyons’ impairments were non-severe. The ALJ did not develop the
record regarding steps three, four, and five. Given the lack of analysis beyond step
two, we affirm the district court’s decision to remand to the ALJ for further
administrative proceedings.
AFFIRMED.
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